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Rather than cover the cost of gender affirming care for trans youth under medicaid, Colorado is voluntarily enacting the republican "taper and detransition" policy for youth on medicaid and dropping coverage. WTF.

Ironically, the first known violation of that law is now coming from the state itself. On September 18th, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) informed providers that “certain Physician-Administered Drug (PAD) services for the purposes of gender-affirming care will no longer be covered benefits for members under 18 years of age.” Two weeks later, HCPF released its full policy surrounding its updated coverage, and it somehow manages to be worse than the policies enacted by Arizona and Virginia. As Transitics reported last week, the federal rule allows for a 6-month ‘tapering’ period for youth currently receiving gender-affirming care where federal funds can still be used. And although HCPF does mention that stipulation in its policy, it also introduced a strange exception:

“Effective October 13, 2026, claims payment for GnRH/LHRH agents prescribed for gender-affirming care therapy for members under the age of 18 will not be allowed… Prior authorization for testosterone, estrogen, progesterone or medroxyprogesterone therapy for members under the age of 18,” the policy reads, “who are receiving and stabilized on therapy for gender-affirming care prior to October 13, 2026, may receive approval to allow for tapering and discontinuation of therapy.”

The exclusion of puberty blockers in the tapering policy isn’t accidental. The state’s prior authorization guidance that was updated the same day mirrors the policy and once again does not allow for a tapering period for trans kids receiving puberty blockers. And like Arizona and Virginia, Colorado has provided no indication that it has notified patients and their families. In doing so, Colorado is going far beyond what even the Trump administration intended—immediately cutting many trans kids’ care and leaving them scrambling for options.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 8h

Democrats are getting the country closer to creating a filibuster proof majority to ban trans healthcare and sports for kids than the GOP ever could alone and they expect us to support them lol. reminder "surgeries" is a vague category that could easily include puberty blocker implants!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4h

Montana Dem Sam Forstag just refused to throw trans people under the bus in the MT-01 debate: “Keep politics the heck out of it.” He said government has no business in sports or telling parents what to do. It’s the most competitive House race in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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“Keep Politics The Heck Out Of It”: In Toss-Up MT-01 Race, Dem Sam Forstag Refuses To Throw Trans People Under The Bus

The Democratic candidate accused his republican opponent Aaron Flint supporting people who would “pick our pocket” by distracting voters with anti-transgender attacks.

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 8h

Would you be in favor or restricting abortions for minors as well? Or is it just trans children who should have their healthcare restricted by strangers?

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juno Rylee Stump-Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 11h

Save a trans girl

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juno Rylee Stump-Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 11h

I desperately need a job I am qualified for jobs I have hella experience in PR, research, editing, journalism, and I’ve done it in business2business PR and copy text work too

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Marghoul @marghoul.bsky.social · 9h

I'm sorry to ask but I'm stuck in bed again today. Please help me get something to eat while I'm unable to stand long enough to cook. V: @marghoul CA: $helpmarghoul

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 8h

Right! I remember getting to tour a working water driven granary mill as a kid and it was fantastic

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 9h

It does look like old granary depots or mills In this case it's a coal processing building Specifically a coal breaker More info on coal breakers if curious en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_br...

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Coal breaker - Wikipedia

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 10h

It was a wooden coal-processing colliery (buildings connected to a coal mine)

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 10h

I'm honestly confused What makes it bullshit?

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 11h

pundits focus on improving the lives of those already making more than you, but in ways you can never access it feels like a betrayal, that you are at best taken for granted You just recreated the ACA subsidies issue

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 11h

The issue is the lower class being denied a better life The endless focus on the middle class when it's unobtainable to so many is part of the problem It's not tax cuts we need, but robust public services that benefit everyone When you're struggling to survive and you watch politicians and

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 11h

Great question, the original that prompted it though is baffling as Verity has been used as a name for literally hundreds of years, specially amongst more puritan groups

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 11h

It's actually not complicated why many people are demotivated politically in this country Their quality of life worsens regardless of which economically neo-liberal gets power and funnels money upwards

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12h

No you donut they chose the couch They said fuck it both are horrible I quit

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12h

The guest's voice is modulated, there's a dark shadow hiding their identity The camera very slowly, imperceptibly so, keeps panning back the lights equally slowly brighten as the voice modulation slowly lessens Until the final moments with Gavin talking to Newsom in the mirror now fully visible

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12h

In short to summarize, it's most often that even when Democrats take power their quality of life worsens As neo-liberal economics continues to drive the party, wealth continues to accumulate upwards and more people find themselves thrown out of and/or cut off from any hope of a middle class life

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12h

being simultaneously too poor for ACA subsidies, but earning to much for Medicaid, watching those earning 10+ grand a year more than them get help they are denied Wages being stagnant while cost of living keeps climbing Tax breaks that they in the lower economic brackets can never access

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12h

The ones I've talked to while on the ground in my swing state overwhelmingly site their quality of life getting worse under both parties. For Democrats they often cite : losing a home during the housing crisis while watching bankers get trillions in bailouts

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Liz as in lizard 🏳️‍⚧️ @sloppers.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I’m still hoping to get around $30ish to pick up a decent electric kettle so I can make dry stuff in my motel room! #mutualaid #helpsky #fundsky #transcrowdfund #helpfolkslive2026 💕💸🏳️‍⚧️

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

can't tell if it's the bot farm going down, or aggressive blocking, but seeing less blue maga types for sure

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Abolish ICE.

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juno Rylee Stump-Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 12/10/2026

My cat is really sick. The vet thinks it’s cancer. Please manifest healing for her. Please help me get her more medicine. Please lift up thoughts for her and that it’s an immune system and/or stomach issue , and not cancer. Thank you.

Topanga laying down feeling sick on my legs

Topanga sick and slow blinking at me on the table

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Then why wasn't military aid cut off? Do you know what a red line is?

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh, I'm furious. Shapiro is a predator. All of these bigoted pundits are bitter creators the culture rejected and now their goal is to twist and poison anything we hold dear out of spite.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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猫くノ一 @nekokunoichi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Look at this. Not hard to defend us. @angieforfl.bsky.social needs to win. Not transphobe dems like Turek who wants to do the opposite and strip away our healthcare in every state. Angie Nixon 👍 Josh Turek 👎

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Not sure what your are politically, but informed ain't it" For the liberal who claims and rejects the liberal label interchangeably depending on how hard left they are currently punching

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"not all liberals" is all you've said Just like folk who say "Not all men" "Not all whites" And all to defend people using transphobic jokes, and rhetoric And to call us maga and fascists Not sure what your are politically, but informed ain't it

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Kinda sounds like you want us all doxxed Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"where did I write..." It was in the comment I replied to, it was literally in the comment I replied to, what is even going on here

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"The person you’re defending is trying to police what kind of HUMOR is used in attacking the same power structures as me." - you a few replies up And what humor is in question? That's right transphobic humor Why are you defending transphobic jokes which only serve to further normalize transphobia?

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

People using transphobic rhetoric, transphobic jokes, running transphobic campaigns are not trans allies

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Tell that to the 28 Democrats running campaigns denigrating trans people Or the Democrat voters joining in on denigrating trans people, or using inherently transphobic jokes In short stop defending transphobic behavior or people

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Honestly think your unprocessed internalized transphobia slipped out, considering misgendering other trans people in this thread has occurred more than once from you

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Who's the "he" you're referring to? I'm seeing a lot of the group think coming from you in defense of anti trans bigotry "It's just a joke" "it's sarcasm" Nope still just bigotry, but that defense is used to 'justify' rape jokes, and racist jokes

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"it's just a joke" it's literally what rapists, racists, genocide deniers, etc say to defend bigotry and hate

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

see if you let anti trans democrats win general elections then democrats will just get more anti trans. don't vote for trans genocide, leave that ballot line blank

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"I offload my cognitive function to data centers controlled by techbro billionaires, in order to annoy people concerned about techbro billionaires, I'm all about saving the environment" Strangest thing I've seen in a while (not a direct quote, just a translation)

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oh I get your other nonsensical post now "according to AI" was all I needed to read

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Did you just say Musk got promoted by obeying company will? The guy who bought Twitter for 40 billion for "promoted" to owner by obeying company will?

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MeowingStar (she/her/hers) @meowingstar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Why in September of 2023 was it reported as the highest year number of children deaths in the West Bank by the IDF then? Who built the wall effectively imprisoning all of Gaza?

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